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IRAN: Picnicking Outside Evin Prison
By Sara Farhang
TEHRAN - Outside the gates of Tehran's notorious Evin prison, hundreds wait impatiently – some with blankets spread out in the parking lot on the street below, making time for dinner.
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RUSSIA: Chechen Civilians Face Collective Punishment
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Russian federal and Chechen authorities should immediately put a stop to home burnings and other collective punishment practices against families of alleged insurgents in Chechnya, said a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released Thursday.
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RIGHTS-US: Obama to Approve Indefinite Detentions
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As President Barack Obama struggles with the political backlash from a Congress determined to keep Guantanamo terrorism suspects out of the U.S., his administration is reportedly preparing an executive order that would give him authority to hold prisoners indefinitely without trial, according to weekend media reports.
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POLITICS: Some Drug Trades Easing Up, U.N. Says
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - While worldwide production of heroin and cocaine appears to be slowing, there has been an increase in the use of synthetic drugs, especially in the Middle East, according to the latest report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released Wednesday.
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US-MEXICO: Humanitarian Aid Criminalised at the Border
By Valeria Fernández
ARIVACA, Arizona - Humanitarian aid groups trying to avert migrant deaths on the U.S- Mexico border are facing increased roadblocks in their mission. The hazards are not connected to a spike in drug cartels’ violence, but rather restrictions from the federal government.
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POLITICS: Mexican Cartels Armed by U.S.
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Many of the firearms fuelling Mexican drug violence originated in the United States, says a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released Thursday.
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RIGHTS-US: Death Row Case Embodies Systemic Flaws, Critics Say
By Henry Parr
NEW YORK - Since his conviction on Aug. 21, 1991, Troy Davis has been engaged in an exhaustive legal battle for his exoneration and release from death row. His efforts have garnered international support from organisations and figureheads such as Amnesty International, the European parliament, Desmond Tutu, and Pope Benedict XVI.
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RIGHTS-US: Palau Agrees to Take Guantanamo Uighurs
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - The announcement Wednesday that Palau will accommodate Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba leaves many unanswered questions, among them whether the U.S. will accept this gesture and whether it will be the best solution to the problem of the Uighurs’ resettlement, rights activists say.
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RIGHTS: Saro-Wiwa Settlement Latest Vindication of 1789 Law
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Monday's settlement of a long-pending case by Royal Dutch Shell marks the latest successful use by human rights groups of a 1789 anti-piracy law to gain redress in U.S. courts on behalf of foreign victims of serious abuses committed overseas – in this case, Nigeria.
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GUATEMALA: A Candle in the Darkness of Impunity
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) is our only hope for achieving justice, because it is not contaminated or compromised," Eduardo Rodas Marzano, the brother of murdered lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, told IPS.
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FILM-RWANDA: Genocidaires Face Off With Their Victims
By Matthew Berger
NEW YORK - In 1994, hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbours, friends, and family members across Rwanda. Nine years later the killers came home from prison to live side by side again with their victims.
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RIGHTS-CUBA: "Going to the Police Never Crossed My Mind"
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Mercedes Toyo has finally started to smile again after many years of tears and violence. But the bad memories linger. "Now I’m being courted by a 50-year-old man who tells me I’m too wary, that I don’t let anyone get too close," she told IPS in the living room of her house.
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RIGHTS: Historic Court Under the Spotlight in New Film
By Joy Wiltermuth
NEW YORK - The International Criminal Court has struggled since its inception to realise its core mandate to prosecute the world’s worst human rights offenders, putting on trial propagators of genocide, war crimes and the inductors of child soldiers into civil conflict.
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AFRICA-US: Growing Drug Trade Linked to Terror Groups
By Danielle Kurtzleben
WASHINGTON - Drug trafficking was once thought to be a largely Latin American problem, but the international community increasingly finds itself fighting this phenomenon in Africa.
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Q&A: 'More Women Need to Judge'
Mel Frykberg interviews judge THURAYA JUDI ALWAZIR
RAMALLAH - Thuraya Judi Alwazir is one of few women judges sitting on the Palestinian Authority's Judicial Authority. Alwazir speaks here to IPS about her experiences in a largely male-dominated environment, on the rights of women in regard to honour killings and domestic violence, and on the death penalty as applied in the West Bank.
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MIGRATION-US: Arizona Prisoners on Lockdown Amid Hunger Strike
By Valeria Fernandez
PHOENIX, Arizona - Bad food is not the only reason thousands of mostly pre-trial detainees have been going on an intermittent two-week hunger strike in Arizona’s Maricopa County jails.
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RIGHTS-US: Women Migrants Describe Abuse in County Jails
By Valeria Fernández
PHOENIX, Arizona - Broken arms, dislocated jaws, intimidation and vulgarities are part of the daily routine immigrant woman experience in Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) jails, human and civil rights organisations charge.
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RIGHTS-US: Obama Considers Revamping Military Trials
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Reports circulating in Washington suggest that President Barack Obama may try to revive the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which Obama himself criticised during the administration of his predecessor, former President George W. Bush.
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RIGHTS: Britain Tries to Block CIA Rendition Case
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - British High Court judges are expected to rule this week on whether a document by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency can be publicly disclosed, thus opening the courthouse door to a lawsuit charging that the British government was complicit in facilitating the rendition of a British resident by the CIA, which tortured and secretly imprisoned him at Guantánamo Bay.
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POLITICS-US: Obama’s Uighur Problem
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - The probability that some Guantanamo detainees will soon be released into the U.S. will place the administration of President Barack Obama in the eye of a major political hurricane.
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